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12.05.17

Good morning. It’s early on a wet May morning and I’m in the library working on my last ever essay. It’s with such sadness and joy that I finish this degree and running this blog has been a part of that. I hope to carry on as I go to Oxford but things will be different.

At the end of three years I wanted to thank everyone for their kind words and support. I look forward to having you all with me as I move to Oxford and the next part of my life.

A few months ago I got a few asks about Oxford and Cambridge and I basically said I wouldn’t feel comfortable studying there and that I felt they were elitist and unwelcoming to people who didn’t fit the ‘Oxbridge mould’.

After that a few current students from Oxford, Cambridge and other elite universities sent me messages and replies telling me about their experiences and how they didn’t match my idea of those universities. I spoke to a few people about it and I began to take on a different idea about those places.

Fast forward to today and I have just accepted an offer to go to Oxford as a graduate student to read the PGCE Secondary Religious Education. Whilst I still feel apprehensive about Oxford I am incredibly happy to be going and to hopefully have my preconceptions rebuffed and to contribute to the changing culture of the university. I really feel like I’m going to be challenged by Oxford’s rigorous academic postgraduate education and I’m even excited about the chance to join and live in a college.

Purpose, philosophy, education, vocation, learning, teaching. They’ve all been on my mind and I really feel like training to be a teacher is a calling for me and a way to do good and have purpose. 

@nfkadam

I’m also spending lots of time watching episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in bed, aimlessly wandering around supermarkets and looking for new cardigans online.